A College Philosophy Class Paper

 I was just thinking of a paper that I once wrote for a philosophy class in college.  A while back I had come across it and felt it was embarrassing as it was written by a younger and more inexperienced and naïve me, so I threw it away.  Now recently, I have thought of that paper again on a couple of occasions and I found myself wondering if perhaps I didn’t give the ideas of my younger self enough credit.  Maybe what I was thinking wasn’t so ridiculous after all.  It’s okay if I threw away the paper though because sometimes it is preferable to focus on the hear and now than to worry about what we didn’t get around to in the past that we still feel that we need to accomplish or examine in the present.  I guess I must admit to being an information hoarder which includes both real world stuff and lots of digitally created and saved stuff.  I have this insight tonight that perhaps it is not worth worrying about everything previously created and saved or left undone if it makes the tasks of the present feel more complicated and too overwhelming.  It is good to be aware that simplifying the present by trusting that there is enough meaning and information to be found there is okay and maybe even a very good idea.  There are always new thoughts to be formed and new information to be found in the present and the best information to be found in the present is what we will find in our current engagement with life.  Yikes!  I guess having thoughts of an old college philosophy class paper can trigger an episode of philosophical thinking. 😱